One year subsequent, January 1, 1974, all products must be down to .067, (6/1007.) or less lead content.

Proposed regulation 191.5 would allow the unrestricted use of lead at concentrations of 0.5 percent of the dried paint film even though lead is a cumulative poison and has caused deaths or toxic symptoms in children who have eaten paint films containing lead.

Woodruff Amax Lead & Zinc Div.

The principal indust ries affect ed by t he new st andard (primary lead product ion, secondary lead product ion, lead-acid bat t ery manufact ur ing, non-ferrous foundries and lead pigment manufact uring) are given from one t o t hree years t o reach an int erim 100 ug level and from one t o t en years t o reach t he final 50 ug level.

One year subsequent, January 1, 1974, all products must be down to .067, (6/1007.) or less lead content.

One ag. cw. of 6 layare of paint on a eurfaee e containing 0.1S lead would contain 40 yg Pbi whegeae at 0.05S lead, 1 eg. cm.

Lead Industries Association , Inc. 292 Madison Avenu# New York.

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Lead Industries Association , Inc. 292 Madison Avenu# New York.

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F, Smith of lead Industries Association at the address on the letterhead.

The City's Bureau of Lead Poisoning estimates that there are still 450,000 apartments in this city where lead based paint covers crumbling walls------and holds a deadly promise of future lead poisoning to young children.

Would any lack of response to such lead constituents lead to a false assumption and sense of security about the entire absence of lead, so that danger from certain paints would be ignored?

TO THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS OF THE LEAD INDUSTRIES ASSOCIATION, INC.